Drew Daywalt Quotes

I hate sequels.

Well, I think Hollywood, to be quite honest, I think they've run out of material.

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.

I'm sick of remakes, how about something different. That's the thing - people always come to me and are like 'what do you want to remake, we know we can get that greenlight, what do you want to make?' I don't want to remake a g-d damn focking think.

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

When you make the biggest film in the history of Bollywood, 'Ra.One,' and get so much flak, it drains you... haunts you for years.

Even in Hollywood, filmmakers are re-creating classics at regular intervals.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

The film industry is run by multinational media conglomerates and they have their perspective on what they need from their product. That's why we live in an era where you see reboots and sequels and remakes and prequels, all these old presents are re-wrapped and offered up as new gifts.

You can't repeat the success of any movie.

I wouldn't have been in the mind-set to do another 'Fly.'

Doing a remake is an open admission that, 'boss, I don't have anything of my own.'

Talent alone doesn't matter in this industry, and everyone knows this. If someone says, 'Good films are done', 'Talent always survives', there are other factors, too, which are far more important.

Definitely that's the worst, to discover that something you're doing has already been done.

There are so many wonderful films being made everywhere, including in Hollywood.

You know you are old when what you still think of as recent films are remade.

Films are something that happened by chance.

There's nothing new under the sun. We talk about the same things all the time on air.

I take a firm stand against sequels. My industry brethren are a little shocked at how firmly I'm committed to not doing sequels.

We've been told the same story for so long. We've seen literally 1,000 'Lord of the Rings' movies.

I have an allergy to sequels and remakes in general.

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

I thought about making movies. It hit me when I was about 14, 15 years old.